Voting Age Should Stay At 18

The voting age should be increased to 19 or 21 years of age. Most 18 year olds have just graduated or are still in highschool, so many of them are immature,and lack life experience. In addition, many 18 year olds do not have a plan(s) after high school, so if they can’t make a decision about their future what makes people think that they can make an informed decision about the future of the country. However, there are some states like Ohio that are allowing seventeen year olds to vote in primaries.

On the voting age there are many people that think teenagers cannot vote .They should be allowed too. Teenagers are young adults. That should have the same right as regular adults do. Just because of their age, many people think they’re irresponsible. They need to consider young adults are just like regular adults.

Another reason I think the voting age should not change is because 16 year olds are not as

That is why i feel our country should not lower the voting age at all. Most teenagers dont vote and have no intension on voting any time in the future. We should keep the voting to adults at the age of 18 and

After reading both articles on the voting age, I believe the age should remain 18. I dont think changing the age will help with the voting turnout if anything it will hurt it.

The current minimum age for voting, 18 years old, isn't a very good time to start allowing people to vote. When people turn 18, they have plenty of things to worry about. They're (hopefully) moving out of their childhood homes, and they're (probably) going into college. How does that affect their abilities to vote? Well, people are less likely to vote when their lives are disrupted. Eighteen-year-olds have a lot of things

Voting almost feels like holding the key to the future. With one single ballot, you're making a difference. Lowering the voter age would decrease voter turnout, increse the amount of irresponsible voters, and cause stress in teens.

16 and 17-year-olds should be allowed to vote because once they start voting they may take into consideration

In my opinion, I feel as though the voting age should stay at 18 and not be changed to 21. One of the reasons why the voting age should stay at 18 is because regardless of your age everyone's voice and opinion should be heard and everyone deserves an opportunity to be able to vote. Also if the voting age were to be increased to 21, the participation rate for voting would decrease significantly. Everybody says how important it is to vote so why should 18,19 and 20-year-olds not be included? If the voting age was raised, it would make things worse, and it wouldn't be right for them to not take part in voting for our political future. Many people may underestimate the younger age groups and may not see them as mature enough to take part in voting.

I agree that the voting age should be lowerd to the age of 16.Simply because they do have mature 16 year olds.To me it's like the passage says "There is nothing magical about the age 18." In my opinion ,if they are allowing 16 year olds to complete high early, that shows that they have the brains to know who to vote for obviously. I've seen most 16 year olds in this generation willing to want to vote than the older generation. So I think the age should be lowerd to those 16 year olds whom have completed high school though. If many countries have already done so, then I think this is the one time America should also follow.I think the turnout would be more higher if the age was lowered.Another thing I agree with from the passage is that "Lowering

I agree, that 16 and 17 year old citizens should have to right to vote. The legal voting age in America is 18 years old, and it has been that way for about 40 years. They were given that right when the the 26th amendment was passed, and ever since it has been passed, there was no real dramatic increase in the voting rate. Young people didn't really pay attention to politics, usually because at that age, 18 year old already had a lot to deal with in their daily lives.

Why I think the voting age of 18 should stay the same. My first reason on why I think we shouldn't change the voting laws, is because of the immaturity in the young voters. Secondly changing the voting age would lower the precent of voters witch is not in a great percentage as it is. Finally instead of changing the voting laws we should be trying to get more of our adults to vote.

In my opinion, I do not believe they should lower the voting age to 16. I feel this way, because I do not think at the age of 16 they truly understand how politics works.I am gonna be 39 and I still do not understand how it all works. Like the artical states,according to U.S. Cenus Bureau report,"only 38% of voters in the 18 - 24 age group voted in 2012". I do not believe those numbers will increase by allowing 16 year olds to vote.I also agree with the artical, "that we should not add the least engaged part of our population to the electorate".

Voting is a big responsibility. It determines who is going to make all of the decisions for the country as a whole. The voting age of 18 should be maintained because at that age you are an adult. Adults are more careful when making decisions that affect everyone. Lowering the voting age puts everyones' rights in the hands of 16 year olds. This would also allow parents to take advantage of their 16 year olds rights and try and persuade them to vote for who they choose. Which concludes that lowering the voting age to 16 would be an irresponsible thing to do.

In Americas opinion, Voting is very imporntant today. At some points it is frowned upon if you don't vote. I believe the voting age should stay the same, because when you are younger, say the age of 16, you dont think that much of politics or what happens with the laws or things like that. You would most likely be at school worrying about getting your school work done. Students would be too worried about school to vote.